From cf5fb0acdf37e710fd3a4dc0780defa1a56789dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 15:48:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Do not escape backslashes when using the template lookup
plugin
This brings the lookup plugin inline with what the template module does.
Fixes #26397
---
lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/template.py | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/template.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/template.py
index 09fd355e3d3..27a4bd2486f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/template.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/template.py
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
self._templar.set_available_variables(temp_vars)
# do the templating
- res = self._templar.template(template_data, preserve_trailing_newlines=True, convert_data=convert_data_p)
+ res = self._templar.template(template_data, preserve_trailing_newlines=True,
+ convert_data=convert_data_p, escape_backslashes=False)
ret.append(res)
else:
raise AnsibleError("the template file %s could not be found for the lookup" % term)